Lashkar-e-Taiba

Wall Street Journal Headlines

A Pakistani court granted bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, even as a massacre at a Pakistani school pushed Islamabad to declare it would root out all militants.

The head of an internationally blacklisted organization that U.S. and Indian authorities link to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai urged a crowd of several thousand here on Sunday “to take action” with sharply worded criticism of Washington and New Delhi.

An Indian court dropped all charges against Amit Shah, president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, in a controversial alleged “fake encounter” shooting case a decade ago, according to a lawyer for Mr. Shah.

Indian authorities said they had arrested the alleged head of the Indian Mujahedeen, an Islamist terrorist group accused of carrying out bomb attacks across India that have killed dozens of people in recent years.

The U.S. temporarily shut its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore and evacuated most of its staff due to a terrorist threat, American officials said, as a wave of extremist violence rocked the country.

Michael Kugelman: The entire al Qaeda franchise remains strong. It boasts powerful affiliates in the Middle East and North Africa and counts as close allies some of the most vicious jihadist groups in South and Central Asia.

Messages of support to Pakistan from its neighbor and rival, India, continued after Taliban militants stormed a school in the city of Peshawar on Tuesday, systematically killing dozens of schoolchildren during a nine-hour siege.